Posts Tagged ‘toyota’
Class-action lawsuits could cost Toyota $3B-plus (AP)
AP – Toyota owners claiming that massive safety recalls are causing the value of their vehicles to plummet have filed at least 89 class-action lawsuits that could cost the Japanese auto giant $3 billion or more, according to an Associated Press review of cases, legal precedent and interviews with experts.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
AP IMPACT: Toyota secretive on ‘black box’ data (AP)
AP – Toyota has for years blocked access to data stored in devices similar to airline “black boxes” that could explain crashes blamed on sudden unintended acceleration, according to an Associated Press review of lawsuits nationwide and interviews with auto crash experts.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Senate panel to review Toyota recalls (AP)
AP – Toyota Motor Corp. faces more questions from Congress over its troubled safety record when top company officials testify Tuesday at a Senate hearing on the automaker’s huge worldwide recall of 8.5 million vehicles.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Toyota chief blasted by lawmakers despite apology (AP)
AP – Under blistering criticism, Toyota President Akio Toyoda personally and repeatedly apologized to Congress and millions of anxious American car-owners Wednesday for deadly defects in popular models produced by his Japanese company. But angry lawmakers forcefully declared it was hardly enough.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Toyota CEO apologizing for recall, accidents (AP)
AP – Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda came to Washington to publicly apologize to Congress Wednesday for safety lapses that led to widespread recalls for accelerator and braking failures and for a corporate culture that may have made things worse. A House committee chairman said blame must be shared by both Toyota and U.S. safety regulators.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Toyota CEO apologizes for recall, accidents (AP)
AP – Japanese formality meets freewheeling Washington as the mysterious scion of the Toyota empire apologizes before a House committee investigating deadly flaws that sparked the recall of 8.5 million cars.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories
Toyota recalls won’t ‘totally’ fix sudden surges (AP)
AP – Massive recalls of popular Toyota cars and trucks still may “not totally” solve frightening problems of sudden, unintended acceleration, the company’s American sales chief conceded Tuesday, a day before the Japanese president of the world’s largest automaker must confront angry U.S. lawmakers.
View full post on Yahoo! News: Top Stories